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Hello everyone!
I pleased to invite you to the official site of Central Asian Karstic-Speleological commission ("Kaspeko")
There, we regularly publish reports about our expeditions, articles and reports on speleotopics, lecture course for instructors, photos etc. ...

Dear Colleagues, This is to draw your attention to several recent publications added to KarstBase, relevant to hypogenic karst/speleogenesis: Corrosion of limestone tablets in sulfidic ground-water: measurements and speleogenetic implications Galdenzi,

Exhibition dedicated to caves is taking place in the Vienna Natural History Museum
The exhibition at the Natural History Museum presents the surprising variety of caves and cave formations such as stalactites and various crystals. ...

Did you know?

That clay is 1. a rock or mineral fragment or a detrital particle of any composition smaller than a very fine silt grain, having a diameter less than 1/256 mm (4 microns, or 0.00016 in., or 8 phi units.) this size is approximately the upper limit of size of particle that can show colloidal properties. 2. a loose, earthy, extremely fine-grained natural sediment or soft rock composed primarily of clay-size or colloidal particles and characterized by a considerable content of clay minerals and subordinate amounts of finely divided quartz, decomposed feldspar, carbonates, ferruginous matter, and other impurities. it forms a plastic, moldable mass when finely ground and mixed with water, but retains its shape on drying, and becomes firm, rocklike, and permanently hard on heating or firing. 3. a term that is commonly applied to any soft, adhesive, fine-grained deposit (such as loam or siliceous silt) and to earthy material, particularly when wet (such as mud). 4. a term used by the international society of soil science for a rock or mineral particle in the soil, having a diameter less than 0.002 mm (2 microns).?

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The aim of the Directory is to increase the visibility of Cave and Karst Research Institutions and ease of communicating with and between them. It provides basic information about Institutions and their research activity.